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Email is not a hard problem. This is a more than fifty-year-old tool.
Chat is not hard either. This is a more than forty-year-old tool. — Some random sketchy thoughts on Unix, web-apps and workflow
Trying out mpv as an alterntive to cmus for isolated playlists. Looks really good!
Effective Modern CMake (via Matt Morse).
Some enlightening posts on the Freenode thing, as viewed from my RSS reader: the end of freenode, Goodbye Freenode, Leaving Freenode, Goodbye Freenode, Final Chapter.
I could say that Twitter, Facebook, Youtube, and Google helped ruin the internet, but really it was that everyone started using it. The internet used to be a haven for nerds, geeks, artists, and bohemian misfits until the cool kids crashed it. Now the internet is dull and stale and overly commercialized. — I miss the old internet
So true.
This blog serves as my way to give back to all of the people who taught me something over my career. It all started in 2007 when I needed a way to keep track of all the information I learned during my daily work as a systems administrator. — https://major.io/
So what does it mean to always be quitting? It means “making yourself replaceable”; “deprecating yourself”; “automating yourself out of your job”. — Always be quitting